One of the questions we get asked the most is how to dye our sola wood flowers in metallic paint and how to best incorporate glitter (because, let's be honest - who doesn't love a little added sparkle and bling?!). Here are a few tips for working with these special effects paints!
Metallic and pearl paints are a great way to bring a metallic feel to your flowers! While they end up being a bit more shimmery than solid metal, the essence of a rose gold or copper flower can be achieved.
A few things to note:
Colorshift paints are really, really neat! If you want to give your flowers a two-toned glimmer look, these will do the trick - especially when in direct sunlight or under a light source.
The same notes apply as from our metallics section except we only tested the FolkArt brand for these. Mainly because those were the only colorshift paints we could find in the craft store during our shopping trip!
Also, black to gold colorshift paint comes out primarily gold but with a hint of black.
Glitter paint and glazes are in a magical unicorn category all by themselves. When you tell me I can get glitter in a project without glitter getting EVERYWHERE, I'm in. No questions asked.
There were some interesting finds we made while playing with these paints and here are some things to note:
We experimented with a lot of different colors but when putting them together for a final collection photo, this color story called out to us. Fun little spin on fall and Halloween, right?! Excited to see what everyone comes up with using these special effects paints!